The vivid imagination of Sir Vivian Richards

This Test match has simmered for days, but in an extraordinary hour after tea, it erupted in a fury

West Indies saved the follow-on on the third day at Port-of-Spain ... just.

Anyone who had any doubts about the problems facing West Indian cricket would have had it brought home to them that the position is extremely serious after watching the first day of the Trinidad Test.

After a soul-destroying first day at the Queen's Park Oval, West Indies resumed the second Test against Australia with a heavy air of resignation

Once again, this was not a day to be a bowler. Saturday's play produced 391 runs for the loss of three wickets, two of them extremely fortuitous.

Australia won the toss and chose to bat at a sunny Port of Spain in the second Test, with Steve Waugh convinced that the grassy pitch would favour his two spinners towards the end of the match

It should have been Brian Lara's day, a triumphant homecoming for the newly-reappointed West Indies captain. But aside from two awful umpiring decisions by Asoka de Silva, little went right for him.

Australian batsman Matthew Hayden hopes to feast on his favourite dishin Trinidad this weekend when the West Indies send a little-knownAnguillan off-spinner into his first cricket Test.

The Australian Cricket Board (ACB) announced today that the National Selection Panel (NSP) has named an unchanged line-up for the second Test of Australia's Travelex Tour of the West Indies, beginning at Queen's Park, Trinidad on Saturday 19 April.